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It's ok to build German tanks. If you put lots of Swastikas or ONLY build German tanks, maybe look at your life.
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building soviet armor is chill, because it's what beat the fuckin' nazis. i almost exclusively build soviet armor. i see the appeal of german armor; it's generally mean-looking, like a 40k tank, and the design of the tiger is probably the most archetypal of all tank designs. soviet armor, though, has a sort of industrious utility to it that i find incredibly charming. you can really see in their designs, they were building something not to be paraded at a rally but to function practically against an existential threat. there's something so satisfying about a t-34 with "THIS TANK PAID FOR BY THE VOLGOGRAD BAKER'S UNION" painted on the turret just obliterating a tiger
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Aug 14, 2019 08:52
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Greybeard getting rankled at the P-51 pilots getting called the original antifa is gold. Good god.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:08
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:building soviet armor is chill, because it's what beat the fuckin' nazis. i almost exclusively build soviet armor. i see the appeal of german armor; it's generally mean-looking, like a 40k tank, and the design of the tiger is probably the most archetypal of all tank designs. soviet armor, though, has a sort of industrious utility to it that i find incredibly charming. you can really see in their designs, they were building something not to be paraded at a rally but to function practically against an existential threat. there's something so satisfying about a t-34 with "THIS TANK PAID FOR BY THE VOLGOGRAD BAKER'S UNION" painted on the turret just obliterating a tiger Yeah, exactly. I think it's the combination of simple but effective design and the Soviet patriotic slogans that won me over. 
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Jonny Nox posted:It's ok to build German tanks. This is how I view it. Germans tanks look as cool as any other tank, and they're all killing machines in the end even if the nazis were objectively worse than everyone else by an order of magnitude. Also you need German kits to make the burnt out tanks in your kick-rear end KV-1 diorama.
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Aug 14, 2019 13:08
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German kits are fun because like their subject model, they’re incredibly over complicated for absolutely no reason. soviet kits are like the shake and bake of military vehicles
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Aug 14, 2019 14:19
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It depends on the kit. I'm dreading the fully functional suspension of the AFV Club Churchill. IIRC it took me less than a day to put together all the major assemblies of the Dragon PzIII. Early Tamiya kits are also dead simple regardless of nation.
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Aug 14, 2019 14:50
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God, gently caress Doog. Can't I just build toy models without the internet trying to make me feel guilty about it?
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Aug 14, 2019 17:25
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Yeah I dont think you or anyone who posts here is the target of his article. It's more along the lines of making a  face when someone keeps making ss units or something and never branches out to something else, or the wehrbs that put panzer div decals on star wars or gundam kits. A decent chunk of the people who replied to his article or on fb tried to pull the whole "how dare you call me a nazi for building German stuff. Nazis and white supremacists arent a real threat; ANTIFA are the real fascists." Or went with some actual wherbism and tried to claim that it's natural to focus on the side that had the more advanced tech.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:39
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How dare you accuse me of having fascist sympathies?! Now let me make my fascist sympathies extremely clear in my defense of this accusation.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:53
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Gewehr 43 posted:God, gently caress Doog. Can't I just build toy models without the internet trying to make me feel guilty about it?
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Aug 14, 2019 21:24
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hey, has there been any discussion of a group build lately? i'd love to do a crapbuild with y'all.
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Aug 14, 2019 22:15
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Wait, it wasn't generally agreed upon that you should be suspicious of Wehraboos? I guess being Jewish it's hard for me not to have my goyem alarm go off when I see people obsessed with nazi poo poo. Kanine fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Aug 15, 2019 |
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Aug 15, 2019 03:44
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WWII stuff has a lot of character, it's a shame the philosophies behind the killing machines has risen from the dead. I still think any of the genuine Nazis would take one look at the Neo-Nazis and just ship them off to a concentration camp or put them up against the wall.
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Darth Brooks posted:WWII stuff has a lot of character what does that even mean?
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gotta be honest, i always loved milhist/scale model building/firearms/etc. but like, seeing people have a callous obsession with the nation that killed a good portion of my family pretty much always kept me away i swear to loving god if anyone pulls "hurr durr commies r just as bad as nazis" bullshit here Kanine fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Aug 15, 2019 |
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Aug 15, 2019 04:09
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Kanine posted:what does that even mean? There are a lot of very individualistic aircraft in WWII, especially on the American side. Think of how different they are from one another, The P-40, the Lighting, Corsair, Thunderbolt, Mustang, Hellcat and even the Aircobra. There's no cookie cutter designs.
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Aug 15, 2019 06:35
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:hey, has there been any discussion of a group build lately? i'd love to do a crapbuild with y'all. I'm up for such a thing. I could stand to do something different.
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Aug 15, 2019 16:20
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Kanine posted:gotta be honest, i always loved milhist/scale model building/firearms/etc. (Re: the spoiler) I don’t think I’ve seen a single english documentary about the eastern front of ww2 which didn’t include a bit of moralizing attempting to drag the soviet union down to germany’s level. It’s very conspicuous and tiresome, in my opinion.
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Aug 15, 2019 16:43
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Frenz posted:(Re: the spoiler) I don’t think I’ve seen a single english documentary about the eastern front of ww2 which didn’t include a bit of moralizing attempting to drag the soviet union down to germany’s level. It’s very conspicuous and tiresome, in my opinion. soviet storm is pretty good. granted its a russian documentary with english voice overs e: anddddddddd the youtube account with the english dub got nuked lol welp
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Aug 15, 2019 16:56
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Raskolnikov38 posted:soviet storm is pretty good. granted its a russian documentary with english voice overs Yeah that’s the best one I’ve seen. There are some good lectures by war college types on youtube that stick to the facts as well.
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Aug 15, 2019 17:00
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i'm gonna have to watch that. soviet armor group build, maybe? a tamiya t-34 or something sloppier?
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Aug 15, 2019 18:02
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I don't usually post here (stick mostly to the gunpla thread), but I'd absolutely join a group build of something Soviet.
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Aug 15, 2019 18:08
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Maybe one of the Meng Toon tanks? They are like  and simple enough to build and paint them in a weeke d or so.
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Aug 15, 2019 18:23
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Molentik posted:Maybe one of the Meng Toon tanks? They are like I'm game. Maybe open it to any "egg" kit? Some of the Hasegawa egg plane kits are cool and cheap too.
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I'll build an egg scale anything any day of the week, but -Molentik posted:Maybe one of the Meng Toon tanks? They are like Not to call bullshit on you, but even buying direct from Japan, I haven't seen these suckers for anything less than around 15-20 bucks. But if you got the hookup, absolutely let me know. I got a major need for the whole set.
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Aug 15, 2019 18:58
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:i'm gonna have to watch that. I'd be down .
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grassy gnoll posted:I'll build an egg scale anything any day of the week, but -  Hasegawa kits on Amazon average about $10. It'd be a crap plane and less of a crap tank though.
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please do not buy things from amazon if you can avoid it e: kitlinx has the meng kv-2 for $10.39 right now https://www.kitlinx.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=MGKWWT004&title=Soviet-Toon-Tank-Kv-2 SEX HAVER 40000 fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Aug 15, 2019 |
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Aug 15, 2019 19:23
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Nah.
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Aug 15, 2019 19:25
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 Pair of JS-2's for $11 at Hobbylinc.  $13 at Hobbylinc  Pair of flying BA-6's for $11
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grassy gnoll posted:I'll build an egg scale anything any day of the week, but - Cheapest I could find, €8,20, from Germany. E; they have the Sherman for €4,90.
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Yooper posted:
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Aug 15, 2019 20:27
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Yooper posted:
oh ive got to get some of these for a cousin who's 11 and loves cute versions of normal stuff
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I should not have tried to freehand an exhaust stain on a 1/72 plane. I should have just stuck to oils.
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I just found a local store with a bunch of the Meng egg tanks, so I'm set for either an egg scale or a Soviet armor project.
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Aug 16, 2019 20:34
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What are the most ethical sources of fascist death machine models?
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Baronjutter posted:What are the most ethical sources of fascist death machine models? Scrimshawed from the bones of fascists themselves, obviously.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:zvezda If buying Zvezda, be sure to check Scalemates and make sure it was made after 2000 and it's not an Italeri rebox.
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